Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-06-25

It is clsimed that the people have be- come exaspersted at the kings action ID tortifylng the palace walls and taking in supplies of ammunition there and that American and British residents have appealed to their respective gov ernments for protection and asked that n msn-of-EAr bs ordered tO Honolulu. Is wBs even rumored that R revolution had begun. Rev. DT. J. A. Crusen, who had been in Honolulu several years and returned on the Australia. said: When l left Honolulu on the 7th the place was Tn R condition of seethiDg discontent, but the king had not been depOseG. What hss occurred since of course do not know nor do 1 believe Enyone else has any accurate information. Every body m the islands had agreed that some change ought and must bt once take place ID the mode oi the govern ment The Chinese 1 am told have been arming themselves of late with rifles and revolvers. A rIhs corps has also been organized by the white people Ot the islsUd, nominally for the purpose of target practice. The Chinese arc the most discOnse3ted people m HOnsiulu. | One paid the king SS0OJQ for the opium monopoly. $50. OOJ Oi which was turned over to the treasury and the re- maiairg S50OC0 retained by hs majesty as bueksheesh. The other company also paid S75,0OO to the Impecunious king. During the reign of the fourth king Ot tie kamehamehRs bill was presented to h.m for approval by which a regular | nf fu hs~s abolished. In furious mood be tore the document intending such a radical | innovation into pieces, reu-rKing as be dJi SO that he would have DO man iu Honolulu bis ger than him elf. Of the | twenty five thousand inhabitants m the capital about S,OO0 are vuf e. During Iy time on the Isl6uds ws .astor of the Fourth street ConRreg etlonGl church which Was one of the principal churches ot which the American and English at tended on Sundays. I have come 10 ths | Pacific slope to remain and shsll not re- turn to Honolulu
 !. ID. Spreckles, president of the Oceanic Steamship Co.,, and who has not been on friendly terms with the Hawaiian government owing tO business conflicts. said:
 
 stage on the islands. The exiravagance and mismaERgemeDt ot the king have created great dissatisfaction among the foreign residents, and 1 would not be surprised 6: some vessel bringing news of such R state or affsirs." The palace, he says. hss been barTicaded and sup | piled with arms and ammunition and the citizens of other countries had gone SO | for as tO call on their home governments to send men-of-war for their protection. As instances of the extravagRnce of the | king, Spreckles stated that S{0,O00 had been expended on the funeral of his sis- | ter, SSOOO0 in fitting out Gs mHn-of- war a tub Of steamer and 5000 for her equipment. Iu response to inqui- ries Spreckles said the roads on the is- lands were m bad condition; that the harbor needed dredging, and that none If which necessary improvements were receiving attention. He said in the event of successful revolution a repub- lie would probably be set up.
 SyN FRANCISCO. June lS-Deteelive | Hume, Wells, Fargo < Co.'S detective, received R dispatch from Flatonla, Tex Hs, this morning, confirming the fact that tbe southern Psc lie train, No. l9 east bound, was stopped by party, and that Wells, Fargo Co.'S treasure box was robbed of about SIJOO. The des- peradOes also r.fed the U. ;. Mails and went through the train, compelling pas | sengers to give up their money and val uables. Detective TheckeT, who K ID Arizona trying to appreheud the gang that robbed tte 5, r. train at PsDGgo, hss been ordered to ElatOnis at once. .s U-H.- q A.. morning said Hume, They are getting pretty lively in Texas, for the reason that they nave good trans tO work on, aud the best country on the continent n which to escape, owing tU the spare ness uf population. There has been four trains robbed down ID that direc- ton since the 29th Of April, when they made the clean up st PsDago, The second one was May 10th. eleven miles west of Fort Worth, on the T. F. x, k June 4th they robbed train st Me Neils station, on ibe Missouri Pacific, at which time Is IS estimated that they took between twenty and fifty thOusBnd dollars.
 NEW YORK. June 1S-The two thou sand dollar, championship of inc world, light weight prize fight, between Jim
 
 Mitchell of Philadelphia, came of last night, thirty miles up the sound. Car ney won by knocking Mitchell out ID eleven rounds. It was a hard fought battle. The time was 4j minutes and 40 seconds, and was the first time that Mitchell has ever been knocked cut.
 PARIS, June 1S.-A German has been arrested as St, McDardanellis, on sus- picIon of being a sIy with the object of learning the secres to manufacture melinIte,
 SAN FRANCIsCo, June 1S-The health officers found six American lsbOrers afflicted with smallpox, in the vicinity of the Pacific Dail dock this morning. The coDtsgiOn was spread by the China man released on habess corpus from the steamship "City of New York
 GALVESTON, June 1S.-A report has just reached here that the east bonnd Caliiornis express, on the Southern Pacific railroad, TGs robbed at three n. m. neat FlstOniG, sbOu; nInety-iive miles east of San Antonio. The express oGr Was robbed and nobody killed. l. IS rumorel that tue robbers secured 75.0OO. As the train drew up at the station, two men EIth drawn revc!yers mounted the engine, covered the engI- ueer, and forced him to pull the train to the open prairie where there were eight or ten men armed with Winchester Tiles. The two robbers on the engine stood guard over the man at the throttle, while the others went through the mail, express and passenger cars. Nearly all tue passengers were asleep and unaware of whst was going on until they were ! aroused by the rObbers.-
 OTTAWA. Ont, June lS.-An order in the council has been passed removing the tolls on grain passing through the Welisnd canal.
 PARIS, June l8.-The man with whom the Countess Cam2Os left France, IS NIs- count De La Tour GsrbOcui. The cOu- pie went to Antwerp and will go from there to England where they will be married. The Countess has written to the papers saying her object in running away with the Viscouut Was to secure her release from her 0p4 ressors sad regnn | her liberty. The fortune Of the Countess IS estimated at seven million dollars, ! H I.ahauh E